Says the DA's office, he has pleaded guilty to one charge of aggravated sexual assault with a deadly weapon, and two charges of burglary of a habitation and sexual assault.

"Following a guilty plea today," said a follow-up tweet from Craig Watkins' office, "sentencing will occur at later date in the Lake Highland serial rapist case."

Benitez was being held on $4.5 million bond.

Benitez was accused of committing three rapes between February 22 and March 25 of last year. The first occurred in the 10000 block of Ferndale, where a woman was raped at knifepoint following a break-in. Three weeks later, the same thing happened at a different house on the same block. Then, on March 22, a man kicked down the door of a house on nearby Aldwick Drive and sexually assaulted a woman.

Three days later, police receive an anonymous tip regarding a possible suspect in the sexual assaults based on police composite sketches. Then police attempted to pull over Benitez during a traffic stop, at which point he got out of his car and took off. He was arrested, and admitted to the three assaults.

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